normalurl.com: Free URL Redirection
There's nothing worse than those long, ugly URLs with twenty variables in the query string. In recent years there have been a number of websites offering a free service where users can create shorter...
View ArticleQuickFlip jQuery Plugin
QuickFlip is a jQuery plugin I wrote that uses a CSS trick to cause a div, paragraph or any other piece of HTML markup to flip like a card. With a result similar to the UI animation on the iPhone, this...
View ArticleTranslate-It: Easy Translation for Multiple Languages
Translate-It is a free tool that makes multi-language translation easy to implement on any website. With just a few lines of Javascript you can quickly include up to 34 languages of...
View ArticleFlipbook Movies with jQuery
Flipbook is a jQuery plugin that produces a movie effect by running images in quick succession. The concept is similar to something I always did in middle school: doodling in the margins of my...
View Article10 Javascript Resources – From Noob to Pro
When I started developing I was fortunate enough to have an experienced friend who pointed me to all the right articles, websites, etc. The right tools make all the difference and this educational...
View ArticleA million ways to embed custom fonts (and keep typography nerds off your back)
It's time for developers to stop complaining about web typography. Custom font embedding has been around for years, and it has finally gotten to the point that typography nerds can be equally happy...
View ArticleContact-Pop: Contact Form Overlays with a Simple jQuery Plugin
Contact-Pop is a jQuery plugin that makes contact forms with grayed out overlays incredibly easy. The basic script grabs any links that point to your contact page and flags them for the Contact-Pop...
View ArticleScrolling Parallax: A jQuery Plugin
Scrolling Parallax is a new jQuery plugin that binds a parallax effect to the scrollbars and mouse wheel. This allows a background image or anything else to scroll at a different pace than the web page...
View ArticleYouTubin’ Plugin for jQuery
YouTubin' is a jQuery plugin that makes embedding YouTube videos clean, easy and unobtrusive. In its simplest form, YouTubin' grabs any links that point to a YouTube page and replaces them with an...
View ArticleQuickFlip 2: The jQuery Flipping Plugin Made Faster and Simpler
I'm happy to announce the release of QuickFlip 2, a major reworking of the jQuery plugin that flips any piece of HTML markup over like a card. The new version is faster and even easier to use—simply...
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